We need a city of public places where we can SEE these differences, where we can become engaged with the multitude of human characters.

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• Cities today do not reflect the idiosyncrasies and human characters of people.claim0.769
  States that modern urbanism erases the multitude of differences that constitute our humanity
• The public space of our present-day cities, both legally and metaphorically, no longer belongs to us to any deep extent.claim0.761
  Diagnosis of why modern citizens feel unwell in public environments
• Each particle of the city needs to be individual, particular.claim0.759
  A moral and aesthetic imperative for city form rooted in the nature of living tissue
• How is it possible to have cooperative, communal decision-making of the kind needed to deal with decisions in a town, neighborhood, or public building?question0.744
  The central problem of collective design that Alexander addresses with the incremental question method.
• When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.742
  Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.737
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• In any urban neighborhood, creation of public space and private space, with a proper relationship between the two, is the critical issue.claim0.736
  Key claim establishing the importance of balancing public and private realms.
• The street is not a thing to drive through, but a series of spaces which are the places where you most want to be.claim0.734
  Redefines the street from a transportation corridor to a sequence of beloved public rooms